Black Lake

Today we headed up to Black lake. Here the boat is moored on the bank of the north side of the lake and we are looking south. This is as far up the system as we can go. It is flat tundra all around black lake. You can see the steep mountains of Chignik lake just on the other side. Black lake is interesting because it is ~30 square km, but the maximum depth is about 10 feet. Most of it is much shallower. In the summer it can reach 18 degrees C!


Looking north from the shore of Black lake there is nothing but flat tundra all the way to Bristol bay on the north side of the peninsula.


We took two boats up to Black lake, and the impeller on one motor died. We had to tow it all the way back. One hour to get up, three and a half to get back.


The delta of the Black river running into Chignik lake is the trickiest part of the whole system, and one spot was so shallow we had to walk the boats for quite a ways before finding a channel.